Web-based internet telemedicine management of patients with heart failure

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-447

  Kashem, Abul ^a   Droogan, Marie T ^a   Santamore, William P ^a   Wald, Joyce W ^a   Marble, Judith F ^b   Cross, Robert C ^a   Bove, Alfred A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEART FAILURE (HF); TELEMEDICINE INTERVENTION; TELEMEDICINE MANAGEMENT;

TELEMEDICINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMPUTER SECURITY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 33750619281     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2006.12.439     Document Type: Article

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